Marada Movement

The Marada Movement is a democratic party in Lebanon formed in 1967 by Suleiman Frangieh and his clan of Maronites as his own private militia. The militia was pro-Syria during the Lebanese Civil War, and its leader Tony Frangieh was assassinated by the Kataeb Party in 1978 in the Ehden massacre as a result. Since 1991, it is solely a political party, and although it is secular, its members are almost all Christian and it maintains its pro-Syria stance as a part of the March 8 Alliance.